JP2017207862A - Request program of utility use charge - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a request program of a utility use charge capable of efficiently requesting the use charge of utilities by requesting the use charge of utilities in households of a plurality of members belonging to an organization in a batch.SOLUTION: A request program of a utility use charge causes a computer of a first organization which supplies or sells utilities, that is, a computer including a storage part for storing a first identifier for identifying utility use amounts in households of a plurality of members belonging to a second organization and a second identifier for identifying the members to calculate the use amounts of the utilities in the households of the members who use the utilities supplied or sold from the first organization in the households by using the first identifier and the second identifier, and to calculate the use charge of the utilities in the households of the members on the basis of the calculated use amounts, and to total the use charge, and to create charge data indicating the total use charge of the utilities in the households of the plurality of members, and to create bill data for requesting the total use charge to the second organization in a batch on the basis of the charge data.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to a utility usage fee billing program.

  Conventionally, various methods for charging an energy usage fee such as a gas fee or an electricity fee have been proposed (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

JP 2014-013504 A JP 2011-238058 A

  By the way, the conventional method of billing energy usage charges charges users individually, so for organizations that supply energy, the number of charges to be charged is enormous and there are many procedures, and charges are charged. Processing cannot be performed efficiently. This also applies to utilities other than gas and electricity.

  Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a utility usage fee billing program which can efficiently charge a utility usage fee by collectively charging a utility usage fee at the home of a plurality of organization members belonging to the organization.

  A utility usage fee billing program according to an embodiment of the present invention is a computer of a first organization that supplies or sells a utility, and identifies a utility usage amount at home of a plurality of members belonging to the second organization. A computer including a storage unit that stores one identifier and a second identifier for identifying the organization member uses the first identifier and the second identifier to supply a utility supplied or sold by the first organization to a household. The utility usage amount at home of the organization member to be used in is calculated, the utility usage fee at home of the organization member is calculated based on the calculated usage amount, the usage fee is totaled, and the plurality of organizations Fee data representing the total usage fee of the utility at the home of the employee is created, and the total usage fee is transferred to the second organization based on the fee data. Batch to create an invoice data to charge.

  It is possible to provide a utility usage fee billing program capable of efficiently charging a utility usage fee by collectively charging a utility usage fee at a home of a plurality of members belonging to an organization.

1 is a perspective view showing a computer system 10 that executes a utility usage fee billing program according to an embodiment. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a computer system 10. FIG. It is a figure which shows the relationship between the company A and the company B. It is a figure which shows the functional block of the billing apparatus 100 of utility utilization charges. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of a database stored in a memory 170. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of bill data. It is a flowchart which shows the process which the billing apparatus 100 of utility utilization charges performs.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment to which the utility usage fee billing program of the present invention is applied will be described.

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FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a computer system 10 that executes a utility usage fee billing program according to an embodiment. The computer system 10 includes a main body 11, a display 12, a keyboard 13, a mouse 14, and a modem 15.

  The main body 11 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit), an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), a disk drive, and the like. The display 12 displays a usage fee or the like on the screen 12A according to an instruction from the main body 11. The display 12 may be a liquid crystal monitor, for example. The keyboard 13 is an input unit for inputting various information to the computer system 10. The mouse 14 is an input unit that designates an arbitrary position on the screen 12 </ b> A of the display 12. The modem 15 accesses an external database or the like and downloads a program or the like stored in another computer system. The modem 15 performs data communication with other computer systems via the Internet or the like.

  The utility usage fee billing program is stored in a portable recording medium such as a disk 17 or downloaded from a recording medium 16 of another computer system using a communication device such as a modem 15 and input to the computer system 10. Compiled.

  The utility usage fee billing program causes the computer system 10 to operate as a utility usage fee billing device. This program may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium such as the disk 17. The computer-readable recording medium is limited to a portable recording medium such as a disk 17, an IC card memory, a magnetic disk such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, or a USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory. It is not something. The computer-readable recording medium includes various recording media accessible by a computer system connected via a communication device such as a modem 15 or a LAN.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the computer system 10.

  The main body 11 of the computer system 10 includes a CPU 21 connected by a bus 20, a memory unit 22 including RAM or ROM, a disk drive 23 for the disk 17, and a hard disk drive (HDD) 24. In the first embodiment, the display 12, the keyboard 13, and the mouse 14 are connected to the CPU 21 via the bus 20, but these may be directly connected to the CPU 21. The display 12 may be connected to the CPU 21 via a known graphic interface (not shown) that processes input / output image data.

  In the computer system 10, a keyboard 13 and a mouse 14 are input units of a utility usage charge billing device. The display 12 is a display unit that displays on the screen 12A the contents of input to the utility usage fee billing device.

  The computer system 10 is not limited to the configuration shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and various known elements may be added, or various known elements may be used instead.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between the company A and the company B.

  Company A is a company having a gas refinery and a power plant, and is an example of a first organization. The company A is a company that supplies city gas or LPG or other household gas and electric power as household energy.

  Company B is a company having employees who use energy (gas or electricity) supplied by company A, and is an example of a second organization. An employee of company B is an example of a member of the second organization. Employees of company B use the energy provided by company A in detached houses and apartment houses.

  As part of the employee welfare program for company B, company B collects the energy usage fee used in the employee's home (detached house or apartment house) from company A and settles it by payroll deduction. .

  For example, lump sum billing and payroll deduction for such benefits are provided as a package service called “Energy Benefit Pack” by Company A. Employees of Company B who have contracted with Company A for such package services Among these services, the service can be enjoyed by the desired employee.

  Such a package service has a merit that the company A can acquire or defend a large number of customers at a stretch without operating in each home, and can reduce operating costs.

  In addition, since the usage fee can be received from Company B in a lump sum, the fee for debiting the usage fee from the bank account or the fee for card payment is lower than when receiving the usage fee individually from each household. There is an advantage that it can be omitted.

  In addition, when the employee of Company B moves due to a transfer, etc., information on continuation of energy use at the move destination or cancellation of energy use when the move destination is outside the energy supply service area of Company A Can be obtained from the company B, and there is an advantage that it is easy to manage takeover and cancellation.

  In this case, the company B may be charged for the use fee from the company A and the company C, and the company B is billed to the company B via the company A for the usage fee generated by the company C. You may do it. Company A invoices Company B for the usage fees incurred by Company C. Company B's employees use the utilities supplied or sold by Company C and Company A replaces Company C. To make a proxy request. The company C is an example of a third organization.

  In addition, by reducing operating costs, etc., there is a merit that the energy usage fee can be set cheaper with discount services.

  In addition, for the company B, there is a merit that the employee's satisfaction is improved because the procedure for the contract and the payment of the fee for the energy use of the company A is simplified.

  Further, when the employee moves, the procedure for continuing or stopping the use of energy at the moving destination can be performed within the company B, so that there is an advantage that the labor of the employee at the time of moving is greatly reduced.

  In addition, among the employees of Company B, those who have contracted the package service called “Energy Benefit Pack” have the advantage of being able to enjoy the benefits of discounted usage fees, etc. Since it is payroll deduction, there is an advantage that it is not necessary to pay attention to payment. Furthermore, since the procedure is completed in the company B where you work, for example, when you move, there is an advantage that the trouble of contract renewal is greatly reduced.

  The utility usage fee billing program and utility usage fee billing device according to the embodiment realize the service of the company A as described above. Hereinafter, a utility usage fee billing program and a utility usage fee billing apparatus will be described.

  In the following, the employee of the company B is an employee of the company B who contracts a package service called “energy benefit pack”.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing functional blocks of the utility usage fee billing apparatus 100. The utility usage fee billing device 100 is realized by the computer system 10 shown in FIG. 1 executing a utility usage fee billing program, and implements the service of the company A as described above.

  The utility usage fee billing apparatus 100 includes a main control unit 110, a usage amount calculation unit 120, a usage fee calculation unit 130, a fee data creation unit 140, a bill creation unit 150, a settlement unit 160, and a memory 170. Here, the utility usage fee billing apparatus 100 includes a main control unit 110, a usage amount calculation unit 120, a usage fee calculation unit 130, a fee data creation unit 140, an invoice creation unit 150, a settlement unit 160, and a memory 170. The main control unit 110, the usage amount calculation unit 120, the usage fee calculation unit 130, the fee data creation unit 140, the bill creation unit 150, the settlement unit 160, and the memory 170 are different from each other. It may be realized by a device (for example, a server).

  The main control unit 110 is a main control unit that controls various processes of the utility usage fee billing apparatus 100. The main control unit 110 executes a process of transmitting the bill data finally generated by the utility usage fee billing apparatus 100 to the company B computer.

  The usage amount calculation unit 120 obtains the energy usage amount of the employee of the company B who uses the energy supplied by the company A at home. Using the meter ID (Identification) of the energy meter installed in each employee's home of company B, the usage calculation unit 120 reads the energy meter installed in each employee's home of company B, and Find usage.

  As an example, the energy meter is a so-called smart meter that can read the usage amount in a remote place through a communication network such as the Internet, and is connected to the computer system 10 of the company A (see FIG. 1) via the communication network. Yes. Therefore, the usage amount calculation unit 120 can obtain the energy usage amount by using the meter ID of the energy meter installed in each employee's home of the company B. In addition, the usage amount calculation unit 120 determines whether the employee is an employee of the company B based on the employee number of each employee.

  The energy meter is a meter that integrates the gas usage, the power usage, or the gas and power usage. The meter ID of the energy meter is an example of a first identifier that identifies each energy meter, and the employee number is an example of a second identifier that identifies each employee. The meter ID and employee number are associated with each other and stored in the memory 170 in the form of a database as table format data.

  The usage fee calculation unit 130 calculates the usage fee at the home of each employee based on the energy usage at the home of each employee of the company B obtained by the usage amount calculation unit 120. Further, the usage fee calculation unit 130 calculates the total usage fee (total usage fee) by summing up the usage fees of all employees at home.

  The fee data creation unit 140 totals the energy usage fees calculated by the usage fee calculation unit 130 at the home of each employee of the company B, and creates fee data representing the total usage fee.

  The invoice creation unit 150 creates invoice data for collectively charging the total usage fee to the company B based on the fee data created by the fee data creation unit 140. The created bill data is stored in the memory 170 until it is transmitted to the company B computer by the main control unit 110. The invoice data also includes invoice data associated with each employee number. This is used when company B deducts salary in-house.

  The settlement unit 160 executes a process of debiting the total usage fee from the settlement account of the company B based on the bill data on the day when the total usage fee is billed to the company B at once.

  The memory 170 stores at least the meter ID of the energy meter stored in a database and bill data. When there are a plurality of companies B contracting with the company A for the “energy benefits pack”, the meter ID of the energy meter stored in the database and the invoice data are managed for each company B.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure of a database stored in the memory 170.

  The employee number of the employee of the company B and the meter ID of the energy meter of the employee's home are stored in the memory 170 as data in a table format as shown in FIG.

  As an example, employee number 05-123456 of company B employee is associated with a meter ID of 01-X000001, and employee number 07-234567 of company B employee is associated with a meter ID of 03-X001234. The employee number 10-345678 of the employee of company B is associated with a meter ID of 05-X002345.

  Thus, the employee number and the meter ID are associated with each other by using the data in the table format. In addition, since such a database is created for each company that has a contract of “energy benefit pack” with company A, FIG. 5 shows the data structure of the database for company B.

  The database shown in FIG. 5 is created as follows for the employees of company B that are already registered in the customer list of company A.

  When Company B applies to Company A's “Energy Benefit Pack”, it passes the employee's employee number and personal information such as home address and / or telephone number to Company A, and Company A's utility usage fee The main control unit 110 of the billing apparatus 100 collates each employee with the meter ID of the energy meter at each employee's home based on the personal information. Created by associating with an ID. If the employee is already a customer of company A, the customer number may be passed to company A.

  Further, the database shown in FIG. 5 is created as follows for employees of company B that do not use energy supplied by company A and are not registered in the customer list of company A.

  When Company B applies to Company A's “Energy Benefit Pack”, each employee makes a contract within Company B to use Company A's energy. Then, the company B passes the employee number of the employee and personal information such as a home address and / or a telephone number to the company A.

  The computer of company A allocates a meter ID to the energy meter installed in the home of the employee of company B, and the main control unit 110 of the billing apparatus 100 for the utility usage fee of company A associates the meter ID with the employee number. The database shown in FIG. 5 is created.

  Here, as an example, a mode in which the database shown in FIG. 5 is created by the main control unit 110 of the billing apparatus 100 for the utility usage fee of the company A will be described. A member may do it.

  Further, company A and the employee may individually make a contract first, and the employee may apply to company B for the benefit package.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of invoice data.

  The invoice data is invoice data for billing the company B for the total usage fee, and is created by the invoice creation unit 150. The bill data is transmitted from the utility usage fee billing apparatus 100 to the company B computer. The invoice data is used when the settlement unit 160 charges the total usage fee to the company B, and the total usage fee is deducted from the payment account of the company B based on the invoice data. Note that employee information (for example, an address or a telephone number) may be added to the invoice data.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing processing executed by the utility usage charge billing apparatus 100. The following processing is executed by the usage amount calculation unit 120, the usage fee calculation unit 130, the fee data creation unit 140, the bill creation unit 150, and the settlement unit 160 under the control of the main control unit 110.

  The main control unit 110 starts processing on a specific day every month (start).

  The usage amount calculation unit 120 calculates the energy usage amount of each employee of the company B by using the employee number and the meter ID (step S1).

  The usage fee calculation unit 130 calculates the energy usage fee at the home of each employee of the company B based on the energy usage of each employee of the company B obtained in step S1 (step S2).

  The fee data creation unit 140 creates fee data representing the total usage fee by summing up the energy usage fees calculated by the usage fee calculation unit 130 at the home of each employee of the company B (step S3). .

  The invoice creation unit 150 creates invoice data for collectively charging the total usage fee to the company B using the fee data created in step S3 (step S4).

  The main control unit 110 transmits the invoice data to the company B computer on a specific day of each month (step S5).

  The settlement unit 160 deducts the total usage fee from the settlement account of the company B based on the bill data on a specific day of each month (step S6). The specific day of each month is the day for which a total usage fee is billed in a lump sum determined between the company A and the company B.

  Thus, a series of processing ends (end). Such processing is performed on a specific day every month. The above processing is realized by the computer system 10 of the company A executing the utility usage charge billing program of the embodiment. The utility usage fee billing apparatus 100 is realized by the computer system 10 executing a utility usage fee billing program.

  As described above, according to the embodiment, the energy usage fee can be efficiently obtained by billing the energy usage fee at the home of the employee of the company B who has contracted the “energy benefit pack” of the company A. A utility usage charge billing program can be provided. Here, “efficient” means that the cost is also efficient.

  Further, the company A can acquire a large number of customers at once without having to operate in each home, and can reduce the operating cost. In addition, Company A can receive usage fees from Company B in a lump sum, so compared with the case of receiving usage fees individually from each household, fees for debiting usage fees from bank accounts, etc. You can save the case fee. As a result, energy usage fees such as gas and electricity can be discounted and provided to customers, which is an advantage over other companies in the same industry.

  In the above description, the form in which the company A is a company that supplies city gas or LPG or other household gas and electric power as household energy has been described, but either gas or electric power may be used. Further, in addition to gas and electric power, it may be a company that provides Internet service, telephone (fixed, mobile) service, or alarm leasing service. That is, the company A may be a company that provides utility services including electricity, gas, water and sewage, alarms, and communications (Internet and telephone).

  As for electricity, gas, and water supply, company A may be a company that sells electric power, gas, and water supply.

  Moreover, although the form using an employee number was demonstrated above, you may use a company code common to each employee.

  Invoice data that the company A bills to the company B in a lump may include a usage fee for the gautility that the company B uses in the company building or the like.

  The utility usage fee billing program of the exemplary embodiment of the present invention has been described above, but the present invention is not limited to the specifically disclosed embodiment, and departs from the scope of the claims. Various modifications and changes can be made without this.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Utility usage fee billing device 110 Main control unit 120 Usage amount calculation unit 130 Usage fee calculation unit 140 Fee data creation unit 150 Invoice creation unit 160 Settlement unit 170 Memory

Claims (8)

A computer of a first organization that supplies or sells utilities, a first identifier that identifies utility usage at home of a plurality of members belonging to the second organization, and a second identifier that identifies the members A computer including a storage unit for storing
Using the first identifier and the second identifier, the utility amount used at home of the organization member who uses the utility supplied or sold by the first organization at home is obtained,
Based on the obtained usage amount, a utility usage fee is calculated at the organization member's home,
Aggregate the usage fee, and create fee data representing the total usage fee of the utility at the home of the plurality of organizational members,
A utility usage charge billing program for creating bill data for collectively charging the total usage charge to a second organization based on the charge data.   2. The utility usage charge billing program according to claim 1, wherein the computer further transmits the bill data to a computer of the second organization.   3. The utility usage fee billing program according to claim 2, wherein the computer further deducts the total usage fee from a settlement account of the second organization based on the bill data.   The utility usage fee of the organization member's home is deducted from the salary account of the organization member as a part of the welfare in the second organization. Billing program. Create a first list of usage and usage fees for each member of the second organization,
The utility usage charge billing program according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the first list is sent to a second organization. Create a second list of usage and usage fees for each type of utility,
6. The utility usage charge billing program according to claim 1, wherein the second list is sent to a second organization.   7. The utility usage fee billing program according to claim 1, wherein the bill data is data including a utility usage fee of the second organization. The utility charge based on the utility usage amount at the home of the organization member who uses the utility supplied or sold at home from the third organization that supplies or sells the utility is charged on behalf of the third organization. The utility usage fee billing program according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

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